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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carlos Castaneda

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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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Carlos Castaneda
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We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
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One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.
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A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
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Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
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It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
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Crows are not always available to give warning.
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Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
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Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
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Your problems is that you think you have time.
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...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control
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A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
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Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls they don't demolish them.
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...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
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